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Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not…

— Edwin Catmull

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

— Steven Spielberg

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

— Errol Morris

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that…

— Amy Bloom

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

— Thomas Carlyle

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then you're in…

— Saschka Unseld

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters…

— Penelope Lively

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as…

— Jim Thompson